Anna Porter joins CODE's Advisory Council

Canadian publisher Anna Porter adds her name to growing list of experts in support of development organization.

CODE is pleased to announce that Anna Porter has joined its Advisory Council. Ms. Porter has been one of Canada’s most respected book publishers for 30 years. The co-founder of the prominent book publishing house Key Porter Books, Ms. Porter has dedicated her life to publishing, lecturing, speaking and writing on culture, the arts, history, and social issues both at home and abroad.

"I support CODE's aims to teach the young to read and learn - we all know that reading builds bridges of understanding among people, that it encourages imagination and seeing other points of view, these are formidable assets in a divisive world,” says Porter.

Ms. Porter is a past president of the Association of Canadian Publishers, has served on the Ontario Publishers’ Council, is an Officer of The Order of Canada and has been awarded the Order of Ontario. She has been named as one of the National Post’s “Power of 50” and as one of Chatelaine’s “Top 50”.

Ms. Porter’s three novels have all been published in several editions and languages throughout the world.  Her most recently published work, Kasztner’s Train, the True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, won the 2007 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award and the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Ms. Porter joins fellow Advisory Council members Peter Mansbridge, Knowlton Nash, Robert Bateman, Avie Bennett, Mel Hurtig, Karen Kain, Flora MacDonald, and Jodi White.

For more information about CODE or its Advisory Council, contact Jana McDade, Communications Manager, 613 232 3569 ext 252, jmcdade@codecan.org